Dana Burde

Associate Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Associate Professor and Director of International Education, New York University

Professor Dana Burde is an Assistant Professor of International Education at New York University and an Affiliate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research and teaching focus on politics, humanitarianism and education in countries and regions affected by conflict. In this context, she examines the ways in which non-state actors and transnational networks create institutional and normative change.

Beyond the university, Burde’s work as an international education consultant includes assessment and evaluation of post-conflict programs in the Balkans; civil society building in the Caucasus; refugee education in Pakistan; and research on parent and community participation in community schools in Central Asia, Central America and Mali.

Burde received a B.A. from Oberlin College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education with a concentration in Political Science from Columbia University.

Publications

Books

Dana Burde, Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

Other Articles

Dana Burde, interviewed by Lynn Pasquerella, The Academic Minute, Early Education in Afghanistan, 27 August 2014.

Dana Burde, interview by Eileen Reynolds, NYU Stories, Afghans Want Schools, the Hard Part is Getting Their Children There, 17 March 2014.

Dana Burde and Amy Kapit-Spitalny, “Prioritizing the Agenda for Research for the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack: Why Evidence is Important, What We Know, and How to Learn More,” Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack(2012).